The vacation bench of Bombay high court on Monday directed a school in Mira Road to grant at least 30 children admission to Class I once they pay fees for the academic year 2016-17.The fee amount would be subject to a decision to be taken by the deputy director of school education, said a bench of Justices Bhushan Gavai and B P Colabawalla.

The relief came to 30 sets
of parents who had moved the HC, challenging the decision of RBK School at Mira Road to allegedly demand “illegal admission and sports fees from students without any approval from the Parent Teachers Association“. The school's decision has affected over 100 students who passed senior KG from the same school, said advocate Kartik Khandelwal who appeared for the petitioners.

Akash Nayak, whose five-year-old son was denied
admission along with other 29 other kids, decided to seek judicial intervention to ensure that their child's “fundamental right to education“ was not thwarted by the school “arbitrarily , deliberately , intentionally and illegally“.

The advocate for the school, who raised issues of maintainability of the petition, refuted charges made by the parents and said the school was “charging readmission fees since there was a change in management“.